Rising Son (The Juliana Lucio Series) (8 page)

“Yes, and we all know how it works out when you try to tell me what I can and cannot do,” I shot back at her. She just gave me a dagger-eyed stare that always sent chills down my spine. I decided not to argue with her anymore and got back on track.

“What exactly are the bad guys like?”

“They will skin you alive and make you watch while they do it,” she said matter-of-factly cocking her head to the side while gauging my reaction to this.

“Oh look, we’re at the hotel,” she said clearly changing the subject.

We all climbed out of the car and the chauffeur was unloading our bags from the trunk of the limo. We didn’t bring much because we wanted to make sure we only stayed for the two days we planned on being here. We wouldn’t even have to feed if we left on time.

We took our bags and found the main desk in the lobby. William was checking in when I overheard the desk clerk telling him we had one room and was giving him the key.

“I’m sorry, but there must be some sort of mistake we should have two rooms,” I interjected.

 
He looked from me to William to Ana then back to me, “Oh! I’m so sorry, let me check. No, no it says, “one room for Ana Chase, her lover Juliana Chase, and their companion William who can also be called Chase because what the hell.” He looked up to verify we were in fact all those people. “I must say, we don’t generally have that much personal information on file for our guests, but as it says, what the hell. Here is your room key to your one room ma’am,” he said handing over the key.

“What the hell is this?” I snapped as we grabbed our bags and began walking away.

“This is Sebastian’s idea of a joke. He booked the hotel and finds himself terribly funny, but the point is we are safer together than apart. This town is crawling with Coven.”

We made it up to our room which was conveniently situated in the middle of the hotel. It wasn’t exactly one room like the clerk had indicated though, it was the presidential suite. It was a huge expanse of space that could easily accommodate the three of us. It had multiple king size beds, a large oversized couch in the living room, another in the den, and two bathrooms flanking a small kitchen. Not that we would really be utilizing the kitchen.

“Wow, this’ll work. We’re only going to be here for two nights anyway, right?”

“Yeah, just the two nights. We should probably start getting ready for tonight. We need to be there by midnight,” Ana told me.

“How far away is it? It’s only 9:30.”

“It’s right around the corner, but you have to actually do something with your hair tonight Juliana, and they did invent makeup for wearing you know.”

“Hey! I resent that. I do my hair, sometimes, and I don’t need to wear makeup.”

“When every other person in the place is a vampire, you need to wear makeup. It’s like being the prettiest girl in school until the supermodel enrolls. Trust me; you’ll want to look your best."

“Fine, whatever you say,” I told her stiffly.

I spent the next two hours having Ana curl, brush, pull, straighten, curl, brush, pull, and straighten my hair. I was sure I was going to look like a big puffy mess from the eighties, but it looked sleek, shiny, and very stylish. She did her own hair in a half up half down style making her neck seem longer and more elegant than before. She then pulled out a massive bag of makeup and spread it out over the counter and went to work on me. She looked at the clock on the bathroom counter
then decided to move at vampiric
speed. By the time she was done we both looked like we had spent the night at the spa, not on a jet. I pulled on the barely there metallic colored dress and some silver spiked stiletto heels. She did such a good job concealing that they were really weapons you would never guess they had been tampered with, even with using vampire sight.

Ana was wearing a black form fitting dress that fell to the floor. It had a slit up one side that went all the way up to the top of her thigh. Every time she moved she revealed more of the pale smoothness of her long lean leg. The dress itself was deceptively modest. From the front she revealed no cleavage, the straps were wide and crisscrossed in front of her neck, but as soon as she turned around the back of her dress plunged down low making it completely backless, and incredibly erotic. I found I couldn’t take my eyes off of her. She looked amazing, and I wanted to run my fingertips along the length of her spine just to see if I could make her shiver.

I knew she could feel my eyes on her, and could sense a little of what I was feeling through our bond as she turned to look at me over her shoulder. I couldn’t take my eyes off of her, and felt my vision sharpening which meant my eyes were beginning to ring themselves in black. I couldn't believe I was being turned on by her, just by looking at her. This had never happened before, at least not on my part. I had known almost since the beginning Ana wanted me, but I had made myself very clear I wasn’t interested in her that way.
Right?

“Ahem. Ladies are you ready to go?” William said breaking up our unspoken exchange.

I looked over at William and saw him standing in the living area in a perfectly tailored dark grey slim cut suit. His normally unruly hair was slicked back making him look even more impressive and sure of himself. He started walking over to me and as he did I could see his muscles roll under the cut of his suit. He looked strong, sexy, and powerful. He stopped just in front of me taking in my new look. He ran his fingers gently along my hair, not daring to mess it up, then along my cheek as he leaned in for a kiss. One small peck wasn’t enough for him however and he started pulling me in for a deeper, harder kiss pressing against me. I had no problem reciprocating and wrapped my arms around his neck when I felt a cool draft along my bottom.

I pulled away cursing, “This stupid dress! Ana I told you it was too short.”

I let go of William and wiggled the dress back down where it belonged. Ana looked away while William started laughing.

“No, no I think Ana made a great choice. You look amazing in that dress. I think we might need to cancel as a matter of fact,” he said stepping closer to me again.

“Let’s go you two,” Ana said interrupting us. “Juliana, here’s your lipstick.”

“Oh, thanks. By the way, Ana you look beautiful tonight. I don’t think anyone will be able to compare to you, vampire or not.” She looked at me a little surprised, then walked out the door.

“What was that about?” I asked William.

“She’s just jealous Love. You know she wants to be with you right?”

“Yeah, but she also knows I don’t want that from her.”

“Well, after the look you were giving her, she might not think so anymore. I swear if I wasn’t here I think you might’ve torn her dress right off her.”

“Whatever, Will I need to finish this makeup then we can leave.”

William followed me into the bathroom and as I leaned into the mirror I saw that Ana had handed me lipstick that was named blood red.
Great, I hope I don’t mess this up.

As I leaned into the mirror to pay attention to what I was doing with the lipstick my dress rode up again and William wasted no time in coming to stand behind me. He ran his hand along my thigh and bottom as I tried to keep the blood red lipstick from getting all over my mouth. I had finally gotten it on without messing up, no thanks to William’s distractions, when he suddenly dropped to his knees holding me in place with his hands. He started to kiss the length of my legs starting at the back of my knees and working his way up. I felt a sharp scratching sensation then realized he was running his fang along my inner thigh. I was trembling with the thought of the things I wanted him to do to me.

“Will, we need to go. Ana is waiting for us,” I breathed out heavily.

“She can wait a few minutes longer.” His voice was muffled because he had pushed my dress completely over my hips, and was now kissing my bottom.

He grabbed each of my ankles in my stiletto heels and spread them wide. He leaned into me running his tongue along the place I wanted him to the most. I let out a loud moan, calling out his name. He stood up and I started to move, to turn around to face him when he grabbed my hands and placed them on the counter. I looked up into the mirror and found our eyes matched each other in their inky darkness. I stared at him as he held my arms down
 
on the countertop as he pressed himself against me.

“Do not move from this spot. Do you understand?”

I nodded back to him that I understood, becoming more aroused by the second.

“I didn’t hear you. Say it,” he told me forcefully.

“Y-yes, I understand.”

He slowly let go of my hands and held my eyes in his stare. He leaned over running his lips along my neck, just barely letting his fangs scrape my skin. I let out another low moan and turned my neck, baring more of it to him. Instead he ran his tongue along my shoulder that was naked of the dress, while his hand continued to caress my exposed bottom.
 
He dropped down onto his knees behind me again and this time he slid both hands over my behind, and under the strap of my G-string, then
 
pulled it all the way off.

I closed my eyes and thought of all the things I wanted him to do to me.

“Open your eyes.”

I did and saw him staring at me in the mirror.

“Keep them open. Look at me.”

I kept my eyes open and saw him slowly lowering the zipper on his pants as he moved directly behind me. He held my eyes the entire time, his fangs becoming a little longer in the process. I felt him
 
push into me, slowly, and then pull out again. I couldn’t remember the last time I was this turned on, this aroused. I pushed back against him trying to move him in
 
further when he stopped what he was doing altogether and held me still.

“I told you not to move. Keep your hands on the counter.”

“Sorry, I just want . . .”

He pushed himself a little further inside me, but moved just as slow and torturous as the last time. He started moving a little faster but never fully inserted himself.

“What Jules, what do you want? Tell me.”

“You, Will. I want all of you. Harder, faster,” I said panting still looking him in the eyes.

He fully inserted himself this time, but went even slower than he had before in the process.

“I
’ll give you whatever you want L
ove.”

Then he pulled out and slammed himself back into me harder than I had been expecting, eliciting a scream of pleasure from me. I was afraid to move my hands from the countertop in fear that he’d stop what he was doing. Instead I just arched my back into him and pressed back as much as I could; allowing him to go deeper, and as hard as he wanted.

“Oh, god Will! Harder!” I screamed as he thrust behind me while gripping my hips.

I felt my orgasm hit me at once as euphoria shot through me. He came soon after grunting, and loosened his grip on me. We stood there panting for a minute, and
 
then William reached for a washcloth and cleaned up before straightening up his suit.

“Hey, give me a minute will you. I’ll meet you downstairs?” I asked him.

“You know what,
I’ll just wait in the living room for you if that’s okay. I don’t want you alone while we’re here. Take your time.” He went to give me a kiss then gave the red lipstick a second look and opted to kiss me on the cheek instead and made his way out to the living room to wait for me.

I cleaned myself up, straightened my hair and grabbed a new pair of underwear. I found William waiting for me patiently in the living room just like he said he would.
 

We were standing in the elevator on our way to the lobby when William started laughing.

“What are you laughing at?”

“Ana is going to be pissed.”

“Why? What should she be—is that why you did that? So Ana would be even more jealous?”

“No, absolutely not. I did it because I love you, and you look so incredibly hot in that dress there was no way I was going to be keeping my hands off of you tonight. Look, I don’t want Ana hurting any more than you do, but I’m not going to give you up because of it. I was laughing because I think she was planning on letting Sebastian think the two of you are lovers, and well, now that can’t happen.” He started laughing again, “She is going to be pissed,” he said smiling.

The elevator hit the bottom floor and we stepped out to find Ana standing there with her arms crossed over her chest. She looked ticked off we had kept her waiting, and then her nose flared slightly as we got a little closer; and she looked beyond mad.

“You have got to be kidding me!” she yelled at us. “You two reek; everyone will know what you just did.”

She stomped over to us, and jammed her finger into William’s chest, “You couldn’t keep it in your pants for two more days? Sebastian will know you two are together now you imbecile.”

“What’s the big deal? We
are
together Ana,” I reminded her.

“The
big deal
is newly created vampires generally form a bond to their maker, not their maker’s best friend.” She said this glaring at William, “He will know or at least suspect you aren’t impressionable, he will want to know why I am not compelling you to be with me in order to force the bond to form. Nathaniel questioned it and so will Sebastian.”